Al-Shirqat is a town west of the Tigris in Saladin Governorate, Iraq, located 294 kilometres (183 mi) northwest of Baghdad.

It is the main town of the Al-Shirqat District, and is near the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Assur.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control of the town during their June 2014 offensive.

[1] The senior Islamic State military commander Abu Omar al-Shishani was reported to have been killed in fighting in al-Shirqat in July 2016.

[3] More than 160,000 people were displaced from Sharqat due to Islamic State's occupation of the town.